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Bulk Export: Allow exporting to one directory per tag value instead of one directory per combination of values
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I regularly tag libraries with people (e.g., Person|John, Person|Jane).
That way, I can export images to directories for all the people, and easily provide each with pictures of them:
export file name: $(FILE_FOLDER)/darktable_exported/$(CATEGORY[0,Person])/$(FILE.NAME)
However, as soon as multiple people appear in an image, I get a directory for each combination of names (e.g. "John, Jane"). This creates much manual work to disentangle everything.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great to have a variant of the CATEGORY function which creates a copy for each value, instead of a scalar containing all values.
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the export filename template handling for the CATEGORY function and how multiple tag values are currently combined into a directory name. Define the behavior for multiple values, then verify that exports place each image in the expected per-value directories without breaking the existing combination behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100